I've asked for this excellent howto to be integrated in our handbook, if anyone is interested in helping out to make that happen, just give me (pvdabeel@gentoo.org), sejo (sejo@gentoo.org) or the doc lead (swift@gentoo.org) a ping

the sound section is a little short, i used that one http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml (thanks to stimuli). however, they too missed one tiny little thing: the devices are only readable to user audio, and members of the group audio. so don't forget to add yourself and other users to the audio group!

Actually, with the 2.6 kernel recommended, I didn't have to do all that stuff (configuring devfsd and the modules, etc), I just had to do the couple of things listed in the HOWTO.

I've updated the HOWTO with your remark about the audio group, although there must be several other details of the same kind I have omitted because they are not directly related to the Powerbook._________________Theefer

so will there be any drivers for airport extreme or ati 9600/9700 etc. ? for PPC....

As im only a few days away from finally recieving my 15" powerbook i would also like to know if the gfx card will ever be supported.
I opted to go with the more expensive 128mb solution and i just realised that i might never be able to fully utilize it using linux. I am however really excited to be finally recieving my powerbook:)

so will there be any drivers for airport extreme or ati 9600/9700 etc. ? for PPC....

There seem to be some development efforts on the AE drivers that pop up from time to time - I haven't heard anything on the gfx card issue, so it looks like that's going to be a good bit farther down the road.

drewmanto: that is oooone creepy avatar._________________Osmos.org
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so will there be any drivers for airport extreme or ati 9600/9700 etc. ? for PPC....

There seem to be some development efforts on the AE drivers that pop up from time to time - I haven't heard anything on the gfx card issue, so it looks like that's going to be a good bit farther down the road.

drewmanto: that is oooone creepy avatar.

Good to hear that atleast some development is going on. Ill happy if i do not have to waste the pcmcia slot on an extra wificard.

As for the ATI drivers, i would love to see ATI get off there collective arses and help out the community.

SeJo, I think soujirou meant3d hardware acceleration, which I don't think is available for the ATI 9600. I have one too, with the config mentionned in the subject of this thread, but I only get 84 FPS with glxgears. With 3d hardware acceleration, there would probably be around 20 times more frames..._________________Theefer

so i've got gentoo successfully installed on my 15" g4 powerbook! thanks a lot for the howto, it was very helpful. now, it seems as though the light that normally blinks when the pb is asleep is being used as a system light or something? it seems to be blinking whenever the computer is "thinking" at its brightest intensity. is anyone else experiencing this? does anyone know how to turn it off? it's mad annoying. thanks again for the howto and everyone's help!

I combined the Gentoo PPC handbook with your PowerBook tutorials and have successfully setup my iBook2 G3 12" (700MHz/256MB/20GB) with wireless (airport/11mbit), onboard lan (sungem), sound (pmac) - alsa + alsa-oss, xorg-x11 (generic ati-drm/dri), dvd/cdrw, etc. This tutorial works on an iBook if anyone didn't know. In a few days I will post my configuration for my iBook on a subsection on my web site. It really helped a lot, thanks a bunch!

I just installed Gentoo on an PowerBook G3 that we had kicking around here. I stumbled across this how-to whilst trying to figure out how to make everything with a single button touchpad. Thanks for what you wrote, but I found a easier way to turn this on by default without the pain of an init.d script. Add the following line:

dev.mac_hid.mouse_button_emulation = 1

to the end of /etc/sysctl.conf, and /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation will be set to 1 on boot every time.

Could we add some details about what config options should be enabled for firewire-related goodness? I'm having a tough time getting an external drive connected (uses the Oxford 911 chipset, it's one of these no-name things).

I can see in my dmesg and lspci that the firewire adapter is recognised, but I'm obviously missing some stuff in my kernel config.